Mission Hall, Room 1400 | 550 16th St, San Francisco, CA
In-person attendance encouraged.
Lunch will be provided, subject to availability.
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October theme: Women in Health
Speaker
Dr. Susanne Martin Herz is Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Transbay Medical Director in the Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. She is also Affiliate Faculty with the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and the UCSF Program in Bioethics. Her scholarship focuses on preventing and ameliorating neonatal brain injury and developmental disability, early detection of developmental risk, neurodevelopmental assessment across global contexts, and the epidemiology of developmental disabilities in low- and middle-income countries.
She has extensive experience in global health systems strengthening and quality improvement, with work spanning Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa; the Caribbean; Abu Dhabi; and the United States. She has served as a consultant and subject matter expert for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), World Health Organization, and Gates Foundation. Her current research includes studies of neurodevelopmental outcomes and developmental disability in Zimbabwe and the 12-country Global Scales for Early Development Norms & Standards study, for which she serves as Principal Investigator of the only North American site.
She received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed pediatric residency training at Seattle Children’s Hospital and UCSF. She completed a fellowship in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, a PhD in Psychology at the University of Washington, and a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Bioethics at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2014 and maintains a clinical practice in the UCSF Intensive Care Nursery Follow-up program and as a co-located developmental-behavioral pediatrician in the Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Federally Qualified Health Center.
Goals
During this talk, Making Early Childhood Development Visible: Expanding Access to High-Quality Measurement through the Global Scales for Early Development:
- Learn how a child’s developmental trajectory can be monitored, much like weight and height
- Understand how the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) were developed as global measures of child development
- Consider how the GSED and D-score can inform population-level monitoring and programmatic efforts
Our Grand Rounds invites participants to:
- Learn: Explore global health advances, research, and strategies.
- Connect: Engage with experts and peers across disciplines and geographies.
- Apply: Gain ideas, perspectives, and lessons to inform your work.
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